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Gdynia Literary Prize
Gdynia Literary Prize ( pl, Nagroda Literacka Gdynia) is a Polish literary prize, which is awarded annually to authors of the best books published in the previous year in the prose, poetry, essay and (since 2014) translation categories. It was established in 2006 by Wojciech Szczurek, mayor of Gdynia, who stated that "The idea of Gdynia Literary Prize is to honour unique achievements of contemporary Polish authors which shall determine a strong and also permanent impulse to further intensify activities in literature and art in its broad meaning". The list of nominees is announced in May during the International Book Fair (Międzynarowe Targi Książki) in Warsaw. The prizes which consist of the "Literature Cube" statuette and 50.000 PLN are presented at the Grand Gala in June in Gdynia. Since 2008 the Grand Gala is accompanied by ''Literaturomanie'' Days of Gdynia Literary Prize (''Literaturomanie Dni Nagrody Literackiej Gdynia''). Moreover, at the turn of October and Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gdynia
Gdynia ( ; ; german: Gdingen (currently), (1939–1945); csb, Gdiniô, , , ) is a city in northern Poland and a seaport on the Baltic Sea coast. With a population of 243,918, it is the List of cities in Poland, 12th-largest city in Poland and the second-largest in the Pomeranian Voivodeship after Gdańsk. Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity, Poland, Tricity (''Trójmiasto'') with around 1,000,000 inhabitants. Historically and culturally part of Kashubia and Pomerelia, Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia for centuries remained a small fishing village. By the 20th-century it attracted visitors as a seaside resort town. In 1926, Gdynia was granted city rights after which it enjoyed demographic and urban development, with a Modernist architecture, modernist cityscape. It became a major seaport city of Poland. In 1970, 1970 Polish protests, protests in and aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Witkowski
Michał Witkowski (born 17 January 1975, in Wrocław, Poland) is a Polish novelist. Life and career His first "official" work, ''Copyright'', published in 2001, was a collection of short stories. However, he had previously published, ''Zgorszeni wstają od stołów'' in 1997 as Michał S. Witkowski, with the S. standing for Sebastian. On December 17, 2004, ''Lubiewo'' was published — a radically queer novel that sold an estimated 15,000 copies. The novel has been translated into German, English (''Lovetown''), Spanish, Dutch, Finnish (2007), French, Russian, Czech, Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Slovenian (2010) and Hungarian (2010). His next collection of stories ''Fototapeta'' (Photo-wallpaper) was published in 2006 by W.A.B. More recently, Witkowski has published two "queer crime novels", in which a gay writer named Michał Witkowski acts as first-person narrator and detective: ''Drwal'' (The Woodcutter, 2011) and ''Zbrodniarz i dziewczyna'' (The Criminal and the Girl, 2014). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maciej Płaza
Maciej Płaza (born 16 December 1976, in Opinogóra) is a Polish writer, literary scholar and translator of English literature. Life and career He has a PhD in literary studies from Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. He is a laureate of the ''Literature in the World'' Award for his translation of H.P. Lovecraft's collection of short stories ''The Dunwich Horror and Other Frightful Tales'' and was nominated for The Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński Translation Work Award for his translation of Arthur Machen's novel ''The Hill of Dreams''. In 2016, he became the recipient of the Gdynia Literary Prize as well as the Kościelski Award and was also nominated for Poland's top literary prize Nike Award for his collection of stories entitled ''Skoruń''. In 2018, he won the Angelus Award for his novel ''Robinson in Bolechów'' becoming the first Polish writer to do so. Works Scholarly works *''O poznaniu w twórczości Stanisława Lema,'' Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Wrocła ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Pilch
Jerzy Pilch (; 10 August 1952 – 29 May 2020) was a Polish writer, columnist, and journalist. Critics have compared Pilch's style to Witold Gombrowicz, Milan Kundera, or Bohumil Hrabal. Early life and education Born and raised in the small town of Wisła in the Beskids in southern Poland, Pilch studied Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and became active in the city's underground literary scene in the late 1970s. He began making his name under the martial law in the 1980s, by writing and reading essays for the "spoken magazine" ''Na Głos'' ("Out loud"), a regular spoken-word event organised by the oppositional Klub Inteligencji Katolickiej ("Club of Polish Catholic Intellectuals") (even though Pilch himself was Lutheran). Career In 1989, Pilch began to contribute popular satirical essays for the Kraków-based liberal Catholic weekly ''Tygodnik Powszechny'', which established him as a public intellectual. Pilch's best essays from his column in ''Tygo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Tulli
Magdalena Tulli (born Maddalena Flavia Tulli; 20 October 1955 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish novelist and translator, one of Poland's leading writers. Life and career Tulli has an Italian father and a Polish-Jewish mother, and grew up partially in Italy. She graduated from high school in 1974 in Warsaw and obtained a Master's degree in biology at the University of Warsaw in 1979. She then worked six months at the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station. In 1983, she earned a PhD at the Institute of Biology and Zoology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Tulli made her literary debut in 1995 with the prose poem ''Sny i kamienie''. She is a member of the Polish Writers' Association. Her works have been translated into many languages. In 2012, she won the Gdynia Literary Prize for her book ''Włoskie szpilki'' ("Italian High Heels"). In the same year, her novel ''In Red'', translated by Bill Johnston, was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. She received five nominations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Chwin
Stefan Chwin (born 11 April 1949 in Gdańsk) is a Polish novelist, literary critic, and historian of literature whose life and literary work is closely linked to his hometown. He holds a post of Literature Professor at the University of Gdansk, his professional interests are focused on romanticism. The best-known novel by Stefan Chwin is entitled ''Hanemann'' (1995). It has been translated into German, Swedish, Spanish and English; the plot of the novel is set in Gdańsk in the wake of World War II. In 1995, he won the Paszport Polityki Award in literature. In 1997 he received the "Erich Brost Danzig Award" for his merits on Polish-German reconciliation. ( |
Ewa Lipska
Ewa Lipska (born 8 October 1945 in Kraków), is a Polish poet from the generation of the Polish "New Wave." Collections of her verse have been translated into English, Italian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, German and Hungarian. She lives in Vienna and Kraków. The Adam Mickiewicz Institute comments: "While her verse may have some connections with politics, it always documents concrete personal experiences without reaching for grand generalizations. As it unmasks the language of propaganda, her poetry also indicates the weaknesses of language in general as an instrument of human perception and communication." Books Poetry collections * 1967: ''Wiersze'', ("Poems"); Warsaw: CzytelnikWeb pages titled "Lipska Ewa" (iEnglish anPolish), at the Instytut Książki ("Books Institute") website , "Bibliography" sections, retrieved March 1, 2010 * 1970: ''Drugi wybor wierszy'', ("Second Collection of Poems"); Warsaw: Czytelnik * 1972: ''Trzeci wybor wierszy'', ("Third Collection of Poems"); Warsa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrzej Stasiuk
Andrzej Stasiuk (pronounced: ; born 25 September 1960 in Warsaw, Poland) is one of the most successful and internationally acclaimed contemporary Polish writers, journalists and literary critics. He is best known for his travel literature and essays that describe the reality of Eastern Europe and its relationship with the West. Life and work He was born on 25 September 1960 in Warsaw. After being dismissed from secondary school, Stasiuk dropped out of a vocational school too and drifted aimlessly, becoming active in the Polish pacifist movement and spending one and a half years in prison for deserting the army - in a tank, as legend has it. His experiences in prison provided him with the material for the stories in his literary debut of 1992. Entitled ''Mury Hebronu'' ("The Walls of Hebron"), it instantly established him as a premier literary talent. After a collection of ''Wiersze miłosne i nie'' ("Love and Non-Love Poems", 1994), Stasiuk's bestselling first full-length novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Poprzęcka
Maria Joanna Poprzęcka (born 20 October 1942 in Warsaw) is a Polish art historian, who served as the director of the Institute of Art History at the University of Warsaw till 2008. A member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has served on the jury for the Nike Award, and was the recipient of the Order of Polonia Restituta in 2003, the Gdynia Literary Prize in 2009, and the Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis in 2012. References 1942 births Living people Polish art historians Polish historians Polish women historians Women art historians Polish women curators {{Poland-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcin Świetlicki
Marcin Świetlicki (born 24 December 1961) is a Polish poet, writer, and musician. He lives and works in Kraków, Poland. Świetlicki was born in Piaski, near Lublin, Poland. He studied Polish Literature at the Jagiellonian University The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in ... in Kraków, where he has been living since 1980. He worked as an editor at the Tygodnik Powszechny weekly until 2004. Besides his extensive publications and readings as a poet, he also performs as an actor and heads the band Świetliki (Fireflies). Świetlicki has won various prizes and awards for his poetry, including the 1996 Kościelski Award. External links ''I find the trace'', translated by Peter Constantinebiography and bibliographyat "Culture.PL" website of the Adam Mickiewicz Institu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Pankowski
Marian Pankowski (9 November 1919 – 3 April 2011) was a Polish writer, poet, literary critic and translator. Pankowski was born in Sanok. He was a member of the Polish resistance during World War II, and a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen. After the war, he settled in Belgium, where he died in Brussels from pneumonia on 3 April 2011 at the age of 91. Writing Pankowski's Holocaust narratives critically engage with the Polish tradition; he frequently criticizes the pronounced patriarchalism cum Catholicism. The controversy that resulted from his writing seems to stem from his "unconventional approach to sexuality, including same-sex love Homoeroticism is sexual attraction between members of the same sex, either male–male or female–female. The concept differs from the concept of homosexuality: it refers specifically to the desire itself, which can be temporary, whereas "homose ...." Besides writing original work, Pankowski has published translati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
